And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot.
Chapman.

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.
Sir H. Wotton.

2.

To hasten.

[Obs.]

Piers Plowman.

3.

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
Addison.

Rapt into future times, the bard begun.
Pope.

4.

To exchange; to truck.

[Obs. & Law]

To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and raena plunder, fr. ran plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne."
Chaucer.